1. Writing with Impact: Personal Strategies
Rachel Handforth
@Rach_Handforth
Writing with Impact: Personal Strategies
@Rach_Handforth

2. Impact?
Something that is read, used and considered to be useful by others.
Things to consider:
How are you going to communicate your work?
Your audience- who might use it? Specific audience or generalist?
How might others be able to use it?
Are there things you can do to help
others to use your work?
within which I take the several kinds of data I've collected and construct narrative accounts of participants' experiences
Explain a bit about number of participants- from two institutions, across subject areas, started their full-time PhD at the same time as I did- in October 2014.
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3. My 'Outputs'
As well as formal academic outputs such as journal articles, I have enjoyed communicating my research to different audiences.
I have used media outlets to promote my research, such as an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield to discuss my work on Blurred Lines
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4. My 'Outputs' Co-written article based on past work
Co-written articles under review- but takes time
Blog posts
Book Review
Book chapter based on PhD work
Hope to publish a monograph- currently negotiating with publisher
Presenting at conferences also counts!
Potential to work up conference papers into articles, or upload the presentations onto Research Gate, academia.edu etc
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5. Blog Writing https://rachelhandforth.wordpress.com/
Started it because I was told it was a useful way
of demonstrating my ability to write for multiple audiences.
Useful now as:
A way of reflecting on my work
A tool to reach out to other researchers
Making new connections
Method of communicating my thoughts in a clear and concise way
A place to get things off my chest!
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6. Blog Writing
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7. Blog Writing
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8. Blog Writing
Has led to future collaborations
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9. Strategies for Impact
Collaborate with others, especially those working in other disciplines
Reach out to groups and networks with similar approaches/values/areas of interest
Identify relevant publishers and journals
Use a range of methods to communicate work, including platforms that are less ‘academic’
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10. Challenges Finding the time to write!
Ever-increasingly becoming a requirement for most academic posts
How best to prioritise- articles versus books
The period of time between submitting work and it being published
Not compromising quality/depth of work
Stern Review- implications of who can ‘claim’ work within the REF units of assessment
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11. Future Plans
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